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Requirements for the Major

Foundation Courses:

• BIOL 181 & BIOL 191 ---- Principles of Biology I & Lab (0.5 credit)
• BIOL 182 & BIOL 192 ---- Principles of Biology II & Lab (0.5 credit)
• CHEM 141 & CHEM 142 ------------- General Chemistry or Chem 143/144
• CHEM 251 & CHEM 252 ------------- Organic Chemistry
• PHYS 111 & PHYS 112 -------------- General Physics or Phys 113/116

Core Course:

• NS&B 213 -- Behavioral Neurobiology (Fall)

Advanced Courses: Five advanced courses from the following list are required for students; two must be cross-listed with Biology (A), two cross-listed with Psychology (B), and one must be a research practicum or methodological course (C).

A. Biology courses (2 required):

• NS&B 224 -- Hormones, Brain and Behavior
• NS&B 239 -- Functional Anatomy of the Human Brain
• NS&B 245 -- Cellular Neurophysiology
• NS&B 249 -- Neuroethology
• NS&B 254 -- Comparative Animal Behavior
• NS&B 299 -- Waves, Brain and Music
• NS&B 326 -- Drugs of Abuse from Neurobiology to Behavior
• NS&B 345 -- Developmental Neurobiology
• NS&B 347 -- Mammalian Cortical Circuits
• NS&B 303 -- Receptors, Channels, and Pumps:...
• NS&B 351 -- Neurobiology of Memory and Learning
• NS&B 360 -- Senior NS&B Capstone Experience
• NS&B 343/543 -- Muscle and Nerve Development
• NS&B 575 -- Cell Death in Development and Disease

*cross listed with MB&B

B. Psychology courses (2 required):

• NS&B 217 -- Neuroscience Perspectives in Psychopatholgies
• NS&B 220 -- Cognitive Psychology
• NS&B 221 -- Human Memory
• NS&B 222 -- Sensation and Perception
• NS&B 225 -- Cognitive Neuroscience
• NS&B 228 -- Clinical Neuropsychology
• NS&B 311 -- Behavioral and Neural Basis of Attention
• NS&B 348 -- Origins of Knowledge

C. Research Methods and Practica (1 required):

• BIOL 320 -- Statistical Methods (Quantitative Methods)
• NS&B 247 -- Laboratory in Neurophysiology
• NS&B 250 -- Lab in Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology
• NS&B 280 -- Applied Data Analysis
• NS&B 381 -- Advanced Seminar in Memory Research
• NS&B 382 -- Advanced Research Seminar in Decision Making
• NS&B 390 -- Experimental Investigations into Reading
• NS&B 392-- Behavioral Methods in Affective Neuroscience
• NS&B 393 -- Advanced Research in Cognition and Neuropsychiatric Illness
• NS&B 409/410 or NS&B 421/422 -- Research Tutorial for 2 semesters, both in the lab of the same NS&B faculty member
• PSYC 200 -- Statistics: an Activity-Based Approach

Note: Methodological courses cannot be credited toward the requirements of categories A or B. Because of the very limited number of spaces, students may not enroll in more than one laboratory course (247,250).